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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SFAC subcommittee that had been investigating the relation between scholarship and probation...
October 29: The SFAC held a special meeting to discuss several resolution on ROTC but was unable to agree on any of them. HUC representatives presented their case for removing ROTC's academic privileges. One Faculty member of SFAC--Oscar Handlin--proposed a wider resolution that would take away credit from ROTC and all other courses that were not "entirely academic in purpose...
November 19: The SFAC held its first vote on ROTC resolutions. By a 16-9 vote, the SFAC killed a resolution nearly identical to the SDS demand that ROTC be immediately removed from campus. Two other ROTC resolutions were postponed until the next meeting...
November 20: Even though the SDS anti-ROTC position had lost in the SFAC, a Faculty member said he would present the resolution at the Faculty's next meeting. Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy, said he would argue that ROTC had no :moral or political legitimacy" at Harvard...
October 1: At its second meeting of the year, the Student-Faculty Advisory Council jumped onto Dean Watson's statements about "sons of active Communists." By a 22-3 vote, the SFAC decided to ask Watson to "prepare for this body an Explanation" of his remarks...